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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
Abstract
From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, the major theories of revolution, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, this VSI traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite—the communist revolutions of the 20th century.
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“Unlike substantialist accounts, a relational approach does not ascribe necessary conditions under which revolutions will arise (e.g. Goldstone 2014).”
From Within and Beyond the “Fourth Generation” of Revolutionary Theory (2016) · cites this paper as Goldstone 2014
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“In similar vein, Goldstone's (2014) recent work makes much of the ways in which international factors serve as important conditions for, and causes of, revolutions. Yet, with the exception of noting the propensity of revolutions to stoke inter-state war, international factors largely drop out of Goldstone's account of revolutionary processes and outcomes.”
From Within and Beyond the “Fourth Generation” of Revolutionary Theory (2016) · cites this paper as Goldstone 2014
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“First, despite increasing attention to the multiple connections between revolutions and the international, this relationship remains unevenly examined, being highly visible in some work (e.g. Foran 2005; Kurzman 2008; Goldstone 2014; Beck 2014; Ritter 2015), yet all but invisible in others (e.g. Parsa 2000; Goodwin 2001; Thompson 2004; Slater 2010).”
From Within and Beyond the “Fourth Generation” of Revolutionary Theory (2016) · cites this paper as Goldstone 2014
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- Authors
- Goldstone, J. A.
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2014-01-06
- OpenAlex
- W4235945006
- Cited by
- 178
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 17.16
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › European Political History Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies in Latin America
- Keywords
- revolution, revolutionaries, theories of revolution, social justice, political violence, Iranian Constitutional Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution, communist revolution, Enlightenment
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